New campaign starts with symbolic circle

Friday

May 30, 2014 at 2:03 PM

By Annette.Manwell@hollandsentinel.com(616) 546-4270

The New Community Fourth Reformed Church in Holland will kick off Sunday its Building the Future campaign.There will be a service at 10 a.m. and a picnic following the program at about noon. The big event is parishioner Brown Eagle’s idea to circle the church.Eagle, whose name has been legally changed, envisions the church-goers circling the church to symbolically show that not one person is better than another and all people are equal.“We’re all together in this,” Eagle said. “It’s a good thing for people to see.”“A Friendship Circle is ongoing,” Eagle wrote in an emailing describing her vision. “There is no beginning, there is no end. No one is in front and no one is behind. No one is beneath nor is one above. No one is first, nor is one last. A friendship circle is always ongoing. In a friendship circle, each is standing side by side.“As in one circle, so is true about the one body of Christ. No one part is any more important than the other parts. We are all connected as the blood of Christ unites us. It is all of our differences that makes the Lords image complete.”The first circle, facing the church symbolizes Matthew 22:36-39 — "Teacher, which is the greatest commandment in the Law?" Jesus replied, “Love the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul and with all your mind. This is the first and greatest commandment.”A second circle facing the neighborhood symbolizes the second commandment: “Love your neighbor as yourself."The New Community Fourth Reformed Church is at 238 W. 15th St. For more information, go to newcommunity4thchurch.org.— Follow this reporter on Facebook or Twitter, @SentinelNetty.